1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1407 



the hunters make, and it is evident some of them do 

 very well at It. 



Information of this kind that can be relied on is 

 scarce and often quite unobtainable, as information 

 about the Hudson's Bay Territory was always hidden 

 until a few years ago when the land was thrown open 

 to settlement. Many Americans of late years have 

 gone to Canada with the object of engaging in farm- 

 ing, and many of them have become trappers during 

 the winter, when the icy hand of Jack Frost has eve- 

 ry thing frozen hard. The country is naturally adapt- 

 ed to fur-bearers, so nearly all farmers become trap- 

 pers very quickly. For this reason the book will have 

 a ready sale. The price is reasonable (60 cents), and 

 we can club it with Gleanings for $1.30. Canadians 

 will be obliged to pay a little more, the same as for 

 Fox-trapping and Mink-trapping. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, ETC. 



After my remarks on page 1391 were printed, a friend 

 <" Neighbor H.") suggested that our pavements and 

 sidewalks in towns and cities are made by the people, 

 owned by the people, and used by the people, and that 

 the arrangement also seems to be fairly satisfactory 

 all around. Where the matter is properly managed 

 we get these excellent things at cost, and everybody 

 lias the benefit of them without paying a cent wo/y 

 than cost. While we are about it we might say that 

 the free schools of this our free land are also managed 

 much in the same way. Now, why should we not have 

 a parcels post to let our people, especially our hard- 

 working people, have the things they want transport- 

 ed at cost, or pretty nearly that, in the same way that 

 we have our sidewalks and pavements, instead of pay- 

 ing the express companies untold millions in the way 

 of undeserved profits. I came pretty near saying in- 

 surance companies instead of express companies; and 

 I do not know but I should have hit the nail on the 

 head had I done so. Hurrah for parcels post! We 

 are told it is coming, and is already on the way. 



BASSWOOD-TBBBS FOB FALL PLANTING. 



In our last issue, page 1349, 1 said " 1 to 5 feet, 75 cts. 

 for 10," meaning that we would send ten little bass- 

 wood-trees, running frpm 1 to 5 feet in height {averag- 

 ing, perhaps, 3 feet), for 75 cents. Several of our 

 friends seem to have gotten the impression that we 

 gave 10 trees, all five feet high, for 75 cents. But we 

 can not fill such orders without writing back. The 

 reason why we say "from 1 to 5 feet" is this: The 

 trees do not all grow alike as they stand in nursery 

 rows. Some will be a foot high, others 2 feet, some 

 3; a few will be 4 or 5 feet high. When we take up 

 the trees we want to clear the ground so as to plant 

 something else. Accordingly, we advertise to take 

 up 10 trees just as they come, only we do not take any 

 under a foot, and probably none over 5 feet. These 

 prices are for trees to go by express. Where we send 

 them by mail we seldom take any much over a foot. 

 We have now had sufficient frosts so that the leaves 

 are dropping, and we are prepared to fill all orders 

 promptly. I suppose we can fill an order for trees 5 

 feet high if we go all over the nursery and pick out 

 the largest ones; but we should have to have double 

 prices or more if we did that, and we do not like to do 

 it, as it would not be fair to the rest. 



PBOFIT-SHARING," ETC.; AND THE PBEMItTM BUSI- 

 NESS IN GENERAL. 



We are pleased to note that Montgomery Ward & 

 Co., in their last catalog, say they will not. after this 

 year, give "dividend certificates," etc. They say in 

 regard to it, " We will admit we entered into it (the 

 above) with reluctance. Our business has been built 

 up on a strictly cash basis, giving full cash value for 

 cash received." I want to say that I* for one have 

 been having, for some time past, a growing feeling of 

 dislike for all sorts of schemes for making customers 

 a present in a straightforward legitimate business; 

 and I believe the world generally is in favor of getting 

 what it wants at a reasonable price— a close price if 

 you choose to put it— /or spot cash, and let that end 

 the transaction. For instance, I am sure that the 

 great bulk of the regular subscribers of Gleanings 

 would prefer to have " their money's worth " in that 

 journal rather than to have any sort of premium or 



present thrown into the transaction. There may be 

 circumstances that justify things of this kind. As an 

 illustration, in order to get that exceedingly valuable 

 work, Holden's corn-book, into the hands of as many 

 people as possible at once, the Form N'Ws people 

 offered to make every subscriber a present of the 

 book by sending 50 cents in advance for the Farm 

 News. But even then a good many people got the 

 corn-book who do not want it, because they have 

 nothing to do with growing corn.* Now in regard to 

 this journal: I think the majority of our readers will 

 prefer, when they send money for Gleanings, to have 

 that and nothing else, as far as the money will go or 

 pay for; and as it is some little trouble to send a dol- 

 lar each year, a good many remit for a year or two in 

 advance. Sometimes they neglect it, and do not send 

 the money in advance. Now, to accommodate you all, 

 we offer Gleanings three years for $2.00, or five years 

 for three dollars. This is only 60 cents a year, and 

 that is our lowest clubbing price, without any pre- 

 mium or any thing else thrown in Now, to make it 

 still easier, especially on those who have neglected to 

 renew promptly, we will say that any subscriber who 

 pays up all past dues, and sends us as much as $3.00, 

 may have the journal for five years for $3.00, includ- 

 ing the past that is not paid up, as well as the future. 

 In other words, when you find you are owing for 

 Gleanings, and have not paid up, remit us $3.00, and 

 then it costs you only 60 cents a year, past as well as 

 future. Can you afford to pay a dollar a year when 

 you can so easily get it for 60 cents 'i This liberal 

 offer is from your old friend A. I. Root, and I hope 

 many of you will take advantage of it. 



sashes for hot-beds, cold-frames, and little 

 greenhouses. 

 Now is the time to begin to think of giving some 

 protection to plants and flowers that are to be winter- 

 ed over; and there is not only pleasure but profit in 

 seeing stuff grow all winter long. With a few sashes 

 you can make a cold-frame that will grow lettuce, cab- 

 bages, and a lot of hardy stuff without any heat; and 

 when you get ready toward spring, with fermenting 

 stable manure you can get both pleasure and profit 

 from the hot-beds. With a dozen sashes or less you 

 can make a greenhouse opening out from your cellar 

 so you can grow vegetable-plants and other things; 

 and with present prices for almost every thing grown 

 under glass you can make a profitable investment of 

 your time on stormy days, and even keep your hired 

 help busy that would otherwise be unemployed. Any 

 one who does just a little in the way of market-gar- 

 dening should have some sashes and start a little 

 greenhouse. Now, I have just sent for samples (so as 

 to be up to date) of the latest and most improved pat- 

 terns of hot-bed sashes to be found in and around our 

 largest cities; and while we are making them of late 

 of cypress, the best wood in the world for the purpose, 

 our prices are still unchanged. We keep constantly 

 in stock, ready to ship, sashes both in the flat and 

 nailed up. 



PRICES OF OUR LATEST IMPROVED COLD-FRAMES OR 

 HOT-BED SASH MADE OF CYPRESS. 



Price of one sash, in the flat, for sample, without 

 glass, 90 cts.; 5 in the flat, 85 cts. each; 10 in the flat, 

 80 cts. each. Glass, 8x10, just right for the above, 

 $2.90 per box of 90 lights; 5 boxes, $2.80; 10 boxes, $2.70. 



Sash put up, no glass or paint, 10 cts. each extra; 10 

 cts. each extra for each coat of paint, and $1.15 each 

 extra for glass set in place, making the sash put up, 

 painted two coats, and filled with glass, at $2.25 each 

 in lots of 5. The risk and freight charges are so much 

 more shipped put up with glass that we do not recom- 

 mend you to order this way, and we can not well pack 

 less than five safely. 



We would not advise shipping a less number than 

 five; but if you take our advice you will have all your 

 glass sash shipped in the flat. In this case they go as 

 fourth-class freight; whereas, all complete they will 

 have to go as first-class, and some roads rate them as 

 double first-class. 



* As an Illustration of the way the premium business often 

 works, some years ago we advertised to give every subscriber 

 to Gleanings one of our agricultural books; and I Instructed 

 the clerk to use such books as we had the largest stock of 

 when the subscriber did not say what book he wanted. Pret- 

 ty soon a friend down in Florida complained because we had 

 sent him as premium -'The Winter Care of Horses and Cat- 

 tle." He said that, where he lived, he did not have any 

 horses, nor cattle either, because they did all their traveling 

 by boat; and, furthermore, in their locality they did not have 

 any winter. What use would such a bdok be to him under 

 such circumstances; 



